Commentary

Free to Lie, but not to Opine?

By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, November 03 2011

Imagine a country where outside groups could be punished for offering their opinion about the effects of a government official’s actions, while the government itself could knowingly lie with impunity about whether a document even exists. We would see a political opinion punished as a lie while something that is indisputably a lie would be protected by law. Alice, meet Looking Glass; or Cossack, meet Lenin. This may be the state of law in today’s America. The first case involves a former congressman actually suing an interest group for defamation, merely for running advertisements…

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